Civic Virtues

Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism

Richard Dagger

Dagger states the case for republican liberalism, a political theory that combines a concern for individual rights and autonomy with a concern for the claims of community, duty, and public-spirited citizenship. In his provocative and wide-ranging book, he demonstrates that republican liberalism is both plausible as a theory and attractive as a response to several pressing political problems.

Civic Virtues

Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism

Richard Dagger

Description

"The book is beautifully written, elegantly organised and it achieves with splendid efficiency all of the goals that it sets for itself. I recommend it warmly."--Mind "Dagger's book makes a very important contribution to our understanding of citizenship through its clear demonstration that state promotion of civic virtue is compatible with individual autonomy."--Political Studies

Civic Virtues

Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism

Richard Dagger

Reviews and Awards

"The book is beautifully written, elegantly organised and it achieves with splendid efficiency all of the goals that it sets for itself. I recommend it warmly."--Mind

"The arguments in this book, both interpretive and analytical, are consistently careful, modest, astute, and helpful. The version of liberalism in Civic Virtues is certainly an attractive one, and it very effectively makes the point that the virtues of citizenship must be an abiding theme for all students of political philosophy, those who follow Rawls as much as those who follow Rousseau."--American Political Science Review

"...an important work given the growing interest in active citizenship....Dagger's book makes a very important contribution to our understanding of citizenship through its clear demonstration that state promotion of civic virtue is compatible with individual autonomy."--Political Studies "Dagger's book deserves to be read by all those who are interested in enlarging the boundaries of liberalism in the direction of a more communitarian politics."--The Responsive Community

"Dagger's important new book...will repay the attention of both republican and liberal thinkers who share Dagger's avid desire to conceive of the polity as a cooperative practice governed by the principles of fair play as it pursues common goods. [It] will have a particular appeal to thinkers who share his equally avid desire to put theory to the service of political and moral practice."--Ethics